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About the Role
My client is a Chartered Financial Planning Firm with a Discretionary Asset Management and Tax planning arm. As part of your role, you will be working in a small office environment for a growing business, this is an exciting and varied role working within the accounts department to support and assist the accounts team across a broad range of accounting and administration duties.
Wage
£16,640 a year
Hours
Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 with 1 hour for lunch. 40 hours a week
Start date
Sunday 11 October 2026
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
1
What You'll Do at Work
- Posting invoices, credit notes, bank payments and receipts on QuickBooks
- Checking and reconciling supplier statements and resolving any queries
- Recording commission received onto clients’ accounts on Intelligent Office
- Chasing outstanding commissions with providers
- Corresponding with HMRC to resolve client related queries
- Assisting with the preparation of self-assessment tax returns
- Liaising with other departments to achieve accounts department objectives
- Supporting the accounts department with ad-hoc administration when required
- Filing and general admin
Personal Specification
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Computer literate (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- An outgoing personality
- A flexible work approach
- Effective time management and organisational skills (able to prioritise)
- Self-Starter, proactive, able to work independently with minimal direction, able to maintain confidentiality and handle matters discreetly
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Where You'll Work
OLD BEDFORD ROAD NORTHAMPTON NN4 7AA
Training
This role will be supported by Starting Offs AAT Level 3 qualification.
Training Provider
STARTING OFF LIMITED
Training Course
Assistant accountant (level 3)
Course Contents
- Assist with the investigation of, and response to, financial information queries.
- Record and analyse financial data using the organisation’s standard tools and processes.
- Apply double entry bookkeeping and accounting standards to process financial documents, generate financial statements, and report financial information to users of accounts.
- Assist with production of accurate financial information for the preparation of accounts.
- Reconcile financial data, such as preparation of reconciliations or review of reconciliations.
- Investigate, resolve, or escalate transactional queries and errors within their remit as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders.
- Communicate financial information in a way that non-finance stakeholders can interpret and understand.
- Utilise digital skills to present key financial information using finance and accounting software and applications.
- Use software packages to assist with basic accounting tasks in line with cyber and data security requirements, using data securely and safely, including backing up data.
- Communicate using a range of approaches and media, with an understanding of the risks and benefits to the business of social media and other digital applications.
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Training Schedule
AAT Level 3 Remote training delivery One file VLE 6 hours of dedicated training time every week
Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4/C)
- Maths (grade 4/c)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
Company Benefits
- 21 days + bank holidays (increasing to a maximum of 25), company pension scheme once passed 6-month probation, private healthcare, and gym onsite
- Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Possible full time permanent position upon completion of the apprenticeship
Contact Information
The contact for this apprenticeship is: STARTING OFF LIMITED Lucy Harris lucy.harris@startingoff.co.uk
Reference Code
VAC2000044984
Closing Date
Closes in 13 days (Sunday 27 September 2026 at 11:59pm)
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